186 Transactions. — Zoology. 



Sternum greenish-brown, fuscous clouds. 



Legs brownish-yellow ; coxae have light olive-green clouds ; 

 femora, patellae, and tibiae more or less clouded w 7 ith fuscous- 

 black ; metatarsi exhibit basal and distal dusky rings ; spine 

 armature normal ; hairs dark, fine, tolerably thick. 



Palpi brownish -yellow, green tinge; hairs white and 

 black ; humeral joint incrassated forwards, subcompressed, 

 about as long as terminal article ; cubital and radial joints 

 somewhat cup-shaped ; radial shortish, produced on outer 

 side into a moderately long, forward-directed process, with 

 involute margins ; pars digitalis bright yellowish-chestnut ; 

 exhibits two dark rings, one within the other ; genital bulb — 

 viewed from outer side, somewhat slipper-shape, from beneath 

 subovate ; apex constricted, prominently so on outer side ; 

 free, reaches back to the pars cubitalis ; base perceptibly con- 

 stricted ; fore-end occupied by a rather large fovea, encircled 

 by a fuscous costa. 



Abdomen ovate, subdepressed ; somewhat thinly clothed 

 with white hairs, sparingly so on fore-half ; stone-colour, 

 tinged with green ; dappled with fuscous-green, somewhat 

 densely so over superior aspect of posterior third ; folium 

 ovate ; brown, clouded with a darker shade ; glossy. 



Single example. "Wellington. T. Kirk. F.L.S. 



Attus suffuscus, sp. nov. 



Fern. — Ceph.-th., long, 3 ; wide, 2-2. Abd., long, 4-5 ; wide, 

 2-5. Legs, 1, 2-4-3 = 6-4, 5 mm. 



Ccphalothorax fuscous - mahogany colour; hairs dark, 

 short, thin ; cephalic part limited by a tolerably deep and 

 large subcircular depression ; profile-contour ascends from 

 stalk at an angle of 40°, dips perceptibly at median indenta- 

 tion, from thence falls with a slight curve to frontal margin. 



Anterior row of eyes nearly equidistant, side-eyes fully 

 one-third size of centrals ; posterior pair perceptibly smaller 

 than fore-laterals, posited on slight eminences ; eyes of second 

 row placed centrally between fore- and hind-pairs ; ocular 

 area represents a quadrilateral figure one-third wider than 

 long. 



Falces lake- brown ; transversely rugose ; flattish, about 

 one-third longer than broad ; profile-line of outer margin 

 strongly curved. 



Maxilla rather prominently dilated, roundly pointed ; 

 labium conoid, apex rounded; visibly more than half length 

 of maxillae; organs ochraceous, olive-green tone. 



Sternum olive-yellow ; elliptical, perceptible eminences 

 opposite coxae. 



Legs brownish-yellow, tinged with olive-green, passing 

 towards extremities into a reddish-chestnut, clouded, espe- 



